<p>Are there forms for a counselor recommendation online or teacher rec or do they not want those?</p>
<p>They don’t want teacher recs or gc recs for admission. My d has to send them in now because she made semi-finalist for PS, but she didn’t have to have them for the regular admittance application.</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>Yeah, you don’t need any recs for normal admissions.</p>
<p>@zebes
Exactly how hard is it to get PS? What would you say they care the most about? I don’t have the best ECs… </p>
<p>Also, if I am correct, they specifically require teacher recommendations only once you have become a semi-finalist.</p>
<p>to zebes, what were your d’s stats and ec’s like?</p>
<p>female
O.O.S.</p>
<h1>1 Valedectorian.</h1>
<p>4.0 u.w. GPA (4.68 w)
11 AP classes: (AP Bio 5, AP chem 4, Ap World 5, APUSH 5, APLang 4, AP Art History 4, AP Lit 3, AP calc b/c 5, physics B 5, micro 4, government 4)</p>
<p>SAT: 740 math, 700 cr, 600 writing
SAT II: 770 math II, 740 chem
ACT: 35/36 (math 36, reading 36)</p>
<p>Honors: Robert C Byrd Scholarship, National AP Scholar and Scholar w/ Distinction, NM corporate scholarship
NHS
BETA
Epsilon Nu Gamma (English honorary)
letter in Varsity slow-pitch softball
tutor</p>
<p>Student Leadership University 101 (week long seminars in Orlando with business leaders
Student Leadership University 201 (week long seminars in D.C. with political, business, and military leaders)
Student Leadership 301 (seminars in London, Oxford, Paris, Normondy with international business, political and military leaders)</p>
<p>-two years youth intern for 3-year old Sunday School class
-100+ community service hours through local church (very loose in that number, didn’t really keep track and it’s much more)
-two mission trips to Bahamas (orphanages/schools dealing with character counts program and maintenance work)
-two student led mission trip to Brazil (dramas and speaking dealing with depression, suicide, drug use, etc in schools)
- senior rep on church leadership team
two years pd. caregiver (several times/mo.) for g’ma with mid to end-stage alzhiemer’s: dressing, bathing, feeding, toileting, etc. </p>
<p>zebes </p>
<p>P.S. She didn’t make it past the interview round. She interviews with a young man from our church, quite the athlete and very gregarious young man. We got the impression that the alumni who interviews in this area could only recommend one person. He was their recommendation. So, she went to the UF for engineering, as we didn’t want to pay for out of state tuition at gatech.</p>
<p>@zebes
wow there are definitely A LOT of people who are less qualified who have gotten in… how did she even take 11 AP’s before her senior year and fit in those amazing ECs? :eek:</p>
<p>The PS usually selects ~100 people for their scholarship. Do they only select a certain amount of people from each state?</p>
<p>For the recommendations, you only need 2 from your teachers, and “supplemental reporting from guidance counselors.” I don’t understand the “supplemental reporting from guidance counselors” part. If it isn’t a recommendation, then what is it?</p>
<p>In your opinion, what is the main deciding factor in the end? Here is what the brochure lists as the main factors:
“the application for admission, including high school grades, the leadership
and activity record, a personal statement, and standardized test scores.”</p>
<p>^^^
To clarify. She got into Gatech with no problem. She just didn’t get the PS scholarship, and so OOS tuition was cost prohibitive when she had bright futures in FL, combined with her other scholarships. Made sense to do her undergrad at UF, and then she’ll apply somewhere else for grad school. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>Good choice, Zebes. That’s the route I took also. Being 3 years out from graduation, I feel so great about not burdening my parents with school costs and to have no debt myself.</p>